Some of these Ivy League kids want to have it both ways. They want to be baby members of the 1 percent, which they most certainly are, and yet still portray themselves as the oppressed.

Getting rich is about fun. It’s a game, and you have to treat it that way.

Whereas it has long been known and declared that the poor have no right to the property of the rich, I wish it also to be known and declared that the rich have no right to the property of the poor.

Tyrants seldom want pretexts.

Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.

If I hadn’t given my money away, I’d have had more than anyone else on the planet.

Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, and the soul of soulless conditions. It is the opium of the people.

No man is rich enough to buy back his past.

Probably the greatest harm done by vast wealth is the harm that we of moderate means do ourselves when we let the vices of envy and hatred enter deep into our own natures.

Surplus wealth is a sacred trust which its possessor is bound to administer in his lifetime for the good of the community.

Money is kind of a base subject. Like water, food, air and housing, it affects everything yet for some reason the world of academics thinks it’s a subject below their social standing.

I learned that very often the most intolerant and narrow-minded people are the ones who congratulate themselves on their tolerance and open-mindedness.

I was not the son of a worker or lacking in material or social resources for a relatively comfortable existence; I could say I miraculously escaped wealth.

In a rich man’s house there is no place to spit but his face.

He who wishes to be rich in a day will be hanged in a year.

Europe became rich because it exploited Africa; and the Africans know that.

I’m lucky because I do get to fly first-class now.

Wealth, like happiness, is never attained when sought after directly. It comes as a by-product of providing a useful service.

Bottom line is, I didn’t return to Apple to make a fortune. I’ve been very lucky in my life and already have one. When I was 25, my net worth was $100 million or so. I decided then that I wasn’t going to let it ruin my life. There’s no way you could ever spend it all, and I don’t view wealth as something that validates my intelligence.

You may be rich, but there is one thing you can’t afford – that is, if you are a good sort – you can’t afford to spend money on your own luxuries while there are people around you wanting the necessaries of life.

With people of limited ability modesty is merely honesty. But with those who possess great talent it is hypocrisy.

Prosperity is the best protector of principle.

Many people seem to have this double moral. They say one thing and then do another thing. They say that the climate crisis is very important and yet they do nothing about it.

Pricey oil makes clear that wealth really is energy in various forms.

If cash comes with fame, come fame; if cash comes without fame, come cash.

What’s the use of happiness? It can’t buy you money.

The vulgar man is always the most distinguished, for the very desire to be distinguished is vulgar.

Responsibility, I believe, accrues through privilege.

Experience demands that man is the only animal which devours his own kind, for I can apply no milder term to the general prey of the rich on the poor.

Our generation in the west was lucky: we had readymade gateways. We had books, paper, teachers, schools and libraries. But many in the world lack these luxuries. How do you practice without such tryout venues?

A man is rich in proportion to the number of things he can afford to let alone.

If Tyranny and Oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy.

The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.

It put our energies to sleep and made visionaries of us – dreamers and indolent… It is good to begin life poor; it is good to begin life rich – these are wholesome; but to begin it prospectively rich! The man who has not experienced it cannot imagine the curse of it.

People like to build their own story about my life. I don’t know if it makes them feel better, or if it makes it okay for them to not like me, but the last thing I grew up as was rich.

Censorship is never over for those who have experienced it. It is a brand on the imagination that affects the individual who has suffered it, forever.

In some respects, South African apartheid was more vicious than Israeli practices, and in some respects the opposite is true.

The walls, the bars, the guns and the guards can never encircle or hold down the idea of the people.

Wall Street is the only place that people ride to in a Rolls Royce to get advice from those who take the subway.

If past history was all there was to the game, the richest people would be librarians.

Like every other good thing in this world, leisure and culture have to be paid for. Fortunately, however, it is not the leisured and the cultured who have to pay.

If you want to be perfect, go, sell your possessions and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven.

I have plenty of money, unlike other Hollywood celebrities or athletes that have not invested well.

Riches are a good hand maiden, but a poor mistress.

I’m filthy rich!

All the breaks you need in life wait within your imagination, Imagination is the workshop of your mind, capable of turning mind energy into accomplishment and wealth.

The most pitiful among men is he who turns his dreams into silver and gold.

I grew up in the South under segregation. So, I know what terrorism feels like – when your father could be taken out in the middle of the night and lynched just because he didn’t look like he was in an obeying frame of mind when a white person said something he must do. I mean, that’s terrorism, too.

Wealth is like sea-water; the more we drink, the thirstier we become; and the same is true of fame.

My name is Adam Sandler. I’m not particularly talented. I’m not particularly good-looking. And yet I’m a multi-millionaire.

There are few ways in which a man can be more innocently employed than in getting money.

You have to be very rich or very poor to live without a trade.

For more than four decades, the Libyan people have been ruled by a tyrant – Moammar Gaddafi. He has denied his people freedom, exploited their wealth, murdered opponents at home and abroad, and terrorized innocent people around the world – including Americans who were killed by Libyan agents.

Get place and wealth, if possible with grace; if not, by any means get wealth and place.

In our ecclesiastical region there are priests who don’t baptize the children of single mothers because they weren’t conceived in the sanctity of marriage. These are today’s hypocrites. Those who clericalize the church. Those who separate the people of God from salvation.

Work is that which you dislike doing but perform for the sake of external rewards. At school, this takes the form of grades. In society, it means money, status, privilege.

If a man is proud of his wealth, he should not be praised until it is known how he employs it.

It’s very difficult for the American people to believe that our government, one of the richest on Earth, is also one of the stingiest on Earth.

It has so happened in all ages of the world that some have labored, and others have, without labor, enjoyed a large proportion of the fruits.

Health is the greatest gift, contentment the greatest wealth, faithfulness the best relationship.

I saw few die of hunger; of eating, a hundred thousand.